AsteroidGravityFields.jl

Julia-based toolkit for dynamical simulations of planets and small solar system bodies.

Installation

using Pkg
Pkg.add(url="https://github.com/Astroshaper/AsteroidGravityFields.jl")
using AsteroidGravityFields

You can update the module and run tests as follows.

Pkg.update("AsteroidGravityFields")
Pkg.test("AsteroidGravityFields")

Gravity calculation for asteroids

You can calculate the precise gravity field of an irregularly shaped body, based on the constant-density polyhedron method (Werner & Scheeres, 1997).

Example

Distribution of dynamical elevation on asteroid Itokawa. The color map ranges from -25 to 55 m.